| Title |
Reece B. Robertson, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Benjamin J. Bahlmann, March 7, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape nos. 498-500 |
| Alternative Title |
Reece B. Robertson, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Robertson, Reece B., 1920- |
| Contributor |
Bahlmann, Benjamin J.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-03-07 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Germany; Wyoming, United States |
| Subject |
Robertson, Reece B., 1920- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American; Prisoners of war--United States; Prisoners of war--Germany |
| Keywords |
National Guard; Bomber pilots; POWs; Barth, Germany |
| Description |
Transcript (104 pages) of an interview by Benjamin J. Bahlmann with Reece B. Robertson on March 7, 2002. From tape numbers 498, 499, and 500 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Robertson (1920-2009) attended the University of Wyoming and joined the National Guard Calvary Unit, which was activated in February 1941. He was trained to fly the B26, A20, and A26 aircraft and was assigned to the European Theater. He served with the Ninth Air Force, 115th Bomb Group, 67th Squadron at Braintree in Southern England. He was shot down on Christmas Eve 1944, and held in Barth, Germany, at Stalag Luft One, which was later liberated by the Russian army. Interviewed by Benjamin Bahlmann. 104 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
104 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6rr41bb |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American; Prisoners of war |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027034 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr41bb |
| Title |
Page 94 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027023 |
| OCR Text |
Show REE E B. ROBERT ON M R H 7, 2002 got thinking "I haven t flown a plane for six months, and I hav n t fl wn thi n [! r longer than that." I said, "No, thanks." I'm sometimes glad I didn t do it but anyway t n men I suppose I could have got it done, but I just didn 't want to take any chances. BEN: Did you ever fly again? REE: Never flew again. Never flew anything again. BEN: Up to this day? REE: Up to this day. BEN: Never kept a private license? REE: They give me a commercial license. I don't know how much good it would have been, but they gave me a commercial license- they said it was a commercial license- for a twin-engine plane. But I don't know whether it would be any good or not. BEN: So the last time you actually flew an airplane, you jumped out of it (laughs). Well, you were pulled out of it, I guess. REE: (laughs) Yes, that's the last time I flew. Not that I particularly was opposed to it; it didn't bother me, but I just didn't do it. BEN: Did you get to telegram your parents from the East Coast? Did you telegram from France? Or at what point did they realize that you were ... REE: What happened with my parents was they said that, first of all, they said I was missing in action. Now, my brother, he knew the plane I was flying and he apparently told my father, "They don't know how to get out of those planes." So my father was real upset and he says, "Then he can't bail out." Now I did, of course, when we were in camp, they'd give you a little postcard that you could send home. So I sent it home, but they didn't get it for a long time. Well, what happened was, they had these people who used to 94 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr41bb/1027023 |
